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Half-grown coot chick diving for food

Half-grown coot chick diving for food

Coot chick, grown enough to swim off without parental supervision and to dive in search of its own food.

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Fly foraging in buttercup

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Fly in a buttercup flower, its tongue out to eat the nectar.

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West Park acers

Japanese acer seeds

Japanese acers in West Park at the end of last month, with seeds just beginning to develop and giving strong colour contrasts with the vivid leaves.

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Cranesbill: flower and seed head

Cranesbill: flower and seed head

Delicate pink flower of a cranesbill. On the right a flower has gone over and the seed is beginning to ripen in the vaguely beak shaped seed case which gives the plant its name.

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Ladybird on a grass seed head

Ladybird on a grass seed head

Ladybird clinging on to the underside of the seed head of a stalk of grass growing by the side of a canal.

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Flower and seed, Jack by the hedge

Flower and seed, Jack by the hedge

Jack by the hedge stem, with some flowers still remaining and others having begun to develop into seeds. There is a thread showing a small spider is in residence.